The Anger of Achilles: Homer's Iliad
By: Robert Graves
4.07
Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition
The war between the Greeks and the Trojans has reached a fever pitch. Offended by Agamemnon, the gr…
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1. Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations
By: Mary Beard
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift fo… read more
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"All too often, even the most glamorous rebels are just as unappealing, under the surface, as the imperialist tyrants themselves."-Mary Beard, Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations
"La verità è che i Classici sono in declino per definizione [...] La sensazione di una perdita imminente, il perenne timore che gli studi classici stiano per scomparire per sempre è ciò che [...] conf…"-Mary Beard, Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations
2. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Roger Garland
3.81
Format: 75 pages, Hardcover
This adventure book tells of Tom's encounters with the River-woman's beautiful daughter, Old Man Wi… read more
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- poetry
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"Para siempre un mensajero, Un viajero demorado, Errante como una pluma, Un marinero guiado por el viento."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
"There is an inn, a merry old inn beneath an old grey hill, And there they brew a beer so brown That the Man in the Moon himself came down one night to drink his fill."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
"There was a merry passenger, a messenger, a mariner: he built a gilded gondola to wander in, and had in her a load of yellow oranges and porridge for his provender; he perfumed her with marjoram and …"-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
3. The Horror in the Museum
By: H.P. Lovecraft , Stephen Jones
4.02
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Some tales in this collection were inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, others he revised, two he co-author… read more
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4. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
By: David Talbot
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the mo… read more
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5. The Iliad/The Odyssey
By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, 'The Iliad' is the story of the Trojan Wa… read more
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6. Hesiod and Theognis
By: Hesiod , Theognis
3.47
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Hesiod was an early Greek poet and rhapsode, who presumably lived around 700 BCE. His writings serv… read more
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7. The Third Reich in History and Memory
By: Richard J. Evans
3.44
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
the seventy years since the demise of the Third Reich, there has been a significant transformation … read more
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8. Inventing the Enemy: Essays
By: Umberto Eco
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Inventing the Enemycovers a wide range of topics on which Umberto Eco has written and lectured for … read more
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9. On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
By: Matsuo Bashō , Lucien Stryk
4.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and … read more
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10. As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan
By: Lady Sarashina , Ivan Morris
4.00
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
In the mainstream of Japan's literary tradition, As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreamsnot only reveals mu… read more
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11. The Interpretation of Dreams
By: Sigmund Freud
3.86
Format: 136 pages,
The Interpretation of Dreams 1st appeared in German in 11/1899 as Die Traumdeutung (publisher postd… read more
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12. The Treasure of the City of Ladies
By: Sarah Lawson , Christine de Pizan
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written by Europe's first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladiesoffers advic… read more
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13. The Campaigns of Alexander
By: Aubrey de Sélincourt , Arrian , None
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
'His passion was for glory only, and in that he was insatiable'Although written over four hundred y… read more
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14. The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus
By: None , Ian Scott-Kilvert , John Carter
3.11
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC-AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city … read more
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15. The Day of the Triffids
By: John Wyndham
4.01
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffidsto moderate acclaim. Fifty-two year… read more
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16. Dictator (Cicero, #3)
By: Robert Harris
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Imperium...Conspirata...and now, the long-awaited final volume of the author's best-selling Cicero … read more
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17. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
18. Shakespeare's Sonnets
By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones
4.45
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more
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19. The Iliad
By: Homer
3.91
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more
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"I say no wealth is worth my life."-Homer, The Iliad
"These were the colloquies in heaven."-Homer, The Iliad
"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."-Homer, The Iliad
"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"-Homer, The Iliad
20. Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
By: Nancy Fraser
4.04
Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition
A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone w… read more
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21. The Anger of Achilles: Homer's Iliad
By: Robert Graves
4.07
Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition
The war between the Greeks and the Trojans has reached a fever pitch. Offended by Agamemnon, the gr… read more
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